And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
JAMES JOYCEPeople trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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